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  • Publication | 2024
Improving Agricultural Resilience to Salinity through Development and Promotion of Pro-poor Technologies (RESADE)
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Climate change is increasing salinity in sub-Saharan Africa, contributing to crop failure and impacting farmers' livelihoods. Salinity stems from improper irrigation, waterlogging, over-pumping, rising sea levels and seawater intrusion.

RESADE is improving food security, agricultural productivity and incomes of poor smallholder farmers in salinity-affected areas in seven countries. It does so by introducing salt-tolerant crops, using suitable agronomic management practices, developing value chains for new crops, building capacity, influencing national development policies, providing good quality seeds.